[pca] pca-proxy.cgi questions

[Lee, Jarrett]

How does PCA handle multiple clients checking in with the local patch server simultaneously? What if two servers ask for the same patch before the patch downloads completely? Does it have a mechanism that knows the original request to download the patch has not yet completed?

I'm worried the central server will go to grab a patch it doesn't have and then get another request for the same patch and attempt to either hand the second client the unfinished download or attempt to download again.

We plan to have a few hundred servers downloading patches at one time. Will this be fine? Anybody else already doing this?

Thanks,
Jarrett


Jarrett Lee
CedarCrestone, Inc.
UNIX Administrator, Server Technologies
Managed Services
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